Joab Jackson
Joab is a tech writer who has covered back-end technologies for Government Computer News, IDG, Washington Technology, and The New Stack.
Joab Jackson spent three years in the U.S. Army, running a pre-computerized logistics and requisition system (“TAMMS”) for various service batteries. He was the state in the state machine. Since then, he has reported on back-end technologies for Government Computer News, IDG, Washington Technology, The New Stack. He was the first Internet columnist for a U.S. alternative weekly newspaper (The Baltimore City Paper) and was editor for Spock Science Monitor, the only newspaper actually published at Burning Man, 2006-2008.